Well, Its been a long time coming and I've been asked quite a few times now to colab, and I finally got a chance to fish with Matt Scholz aka ‪@PelagicPursuit89‬ . Grab yourself a beer to kick back cos this ones a long one!!

Matty and I have been good mates for many years now and have fished in Australia, CXI and PNG together, since he moved to central QLD we have missed each other many times so it was awesome for it to finally come together with another bloody legend of a bloke, Andrew McKinstray, to fish and shoot photos for the new TIDE Apparel summer range.

With an amazing weather window we decided to make the most of the 3 days and packed the swags into Matt's Contender for a few nights on the outer Barrier Reef. We spent the majority of our time jumping from spot to spot jigging and casting at isolated reefs for a range of species. Day 2 was mind blowing with big ocean swells and a total glass out on the shelf, the jigging was amazing but the sharks made it difficult to land any of the bigger fish, so we headed back in closer and found a pressure edge with bait and plenty of fish and ended the day with a crazy topwater session on an epic patch of dogtooth tuna, Wahoo, Spanish mackerel and a lot of other cool stuff. On the last day of the trip we jigged our way back in and were treated to some spectacular sights with 2 very playful whales interrupting our drift to put on a show, this shut the fish down so we made our way back in and stopped for a break and fed the resident GTs and Maori Wrasse at Manta Ray Bay.

Rod and reel combos I used in this clip are

*Light Slow Jigging *
Rod - Oceans Legacy Slow Element pe3
Reel - Ocea jigger 1500HG
Line - Sunline Siglon ADV
Leader - Sunline System Shock 90lb
Terminals - BKK Lentus 4/0 and #6 rings
Lures - Nomad Buffalo 120g and Oceans Legacy Hybrid Contact 90g

Heavy Jigging
Rod - Oceans Legacy Pe5 Elementus
Reel - Ocea Jigger 3000HG
Line - Pe5 Sunline Siglon ADV
Leader - Sunline System Shock 130lb
Terminals - BKK Lentus 5/0 with #6 rings
Lures - Nomad Buffalo 180 & 230g and Oceans Legacy Hybrid Contact Long 130g

Medium Casting
Rod - NS Black Hole Boca pe 5-8
Reel - 10000 Stella with 16000 Maxel Monster spool
Line - Sunline Monster Battle Pe6 90lb
Leader - Sunline System Shock 130lb
Terminals - BKK Diablo Singles and BKK Raptor Z Trebles
Lures -Nomad Madscad 150 and the new Molix Jerk 140

All in all it was a trip to remember, huge thanks to Matt for taking us out and to Macca for the laughs, always a good time when you got good mates like these onboard!! Matty's video will be out soon so make sure you keep an eye on his Pelagic Pursuit channel for when it drops cos it'll be a good one!.

Peace!!